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cabinet testify to his success. We gazed with admiration upon the 
many rare and beautiful] shells we had many times read about, but 
never seen, and were allowed the pleasure—not granted except to 
members of the guild, I suspect,—of actually handling these spec- 
imens. 
After carefully examining the New England marine shells we were 
shown a fine collection of land shells, gathered from every country 
and every clime, and their various colors, forms and markings were 
of the deepest interest to us. But all things come to an end all 
too soon, we had to bid our good friend adieu and hurry to the 
railroad station (we were to return home by the steam cars). As 
we reluctantly took our departure from Mr. Winkley’s home, where 
the latch string always hangs out invitingly to every conchologist, 
we felt that better than the grand collection of shells we had just 
seen, was the simple, generous, kindly spirit which Nature inspires 
in all her true disciples. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
A SEcTION OF ConcHoLoGey has recently been formed in connec- 
tion with the Michigan Academy of Science, the following gentle- 
men being members: W. H. Sherzer, Ypsilanti; A. H. Boies, Hud- 
son; C. A. Whittemore, R. J. Kirkland, M. D., W. Miller, Charles 
Miller, Jr., and L. H. Streng, Grand Rapids; F. E. Wood, Bay 
City ; L. T. Schurrer, M. D., Lakeport ; C. D. McLouth, Muskegon ; 
Chas. A. Davis, Alma; Jerome Trombly, Petersburg; John M. 
Miller, Escanaba; Bryant Walker, Detroit. 
The formal organization will not take place until the next regu- 
lar meeting of the Academy, but an interesting programme of work 
has been planned, which will doubtless lead to substantial additions 
to the knowledge of Michigan conchology. 
PRESERVATION OF MARINE Motuusca.—Those who were inter- 
ested in Mr. Hornell’s paper on formalin (Nat. Sci., vol. VII, p. 
416), may like to learn that this fluid has been tried for the preserva- 
tion of Aplysia and Pleurobranchus. In both cases, however, a con- 
siderable amount of coloring matter was dissolved out of the integu- 
ment. Dr. J.D. F. Gilchrist, who contributes this observation to 
Professor Herdman’s report, also records a method of killing Aplysia 
in an expanded condition, which he says is the only one that can be 
